“Here is on how to handle Rails 5 ActiveRecord OR query chain.”

So it’s been a while I have been playing with Rails 5 and I have noticed several changes from Rails 4 and of course Rails 3.2.

I have been working with ActiveRecord and tried to construct an OR chained query. As I have been checking the Rails 5 documentation I ended up on a github pull request in which the Rails contributors were discussing the ability to chain two queries.

An example of would be:

Worker.where(name: 'Mark').or(Worker.where(supervisor: true))

where it will return the worker whose name is Mark or whoever is a supervisor.

Here are some other examples:

Finding the worker that is named Mark and is 55 years old or named Chris: